germany

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Afrikakorps

1990
Chronicles the history of Rommel and the German troops in Africa.

The summer of the pike

2006
Three children who live on the grounds of a German castle spend the summer trying to catch a pike trapped in the moat, while the mother of two of the children is slowly dying of cancer.

The Jewish enemy

Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust
2008
Discusses how anti-Semitism shaped Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust. Tells how Hitler legitimized the war and genocide to his people. Includes recreations of media that Germans were influenced by.

The center of the world

2007
Seventeen-year-old Phil, living in a small, provincial German town, works through his often difficult relationships with his single mother, his distant twin sister, and his first boyfriend as an odd assortment of friends help him learn about the wounds and healing brought by love.

Seduced by Hitler

the choices of a nation and the ethics of survival
2001
Explores the impact Hitler and the Nazis had on the people of Germany, discussing how different groups reacted to Hitler's demands.

The last survivor

legacies of Dachau
2000
The author discusses his visits to contemporary Dachau where he traveled in an attempt to discover how the people of the town live with the memories and the legacy of the death camp, and tells the story of Martin Zaidenstadt, an eighty-seven-year-old Holocaust survivor who, for years, has kept a daily vigil at the camp's crematorium.

Fodor's 06 Germany

2006
Presents a comprehensive travel guide to Germany, and provides information on accommodations and restaurants, nightlife and the arts, shopping, tourist sites, and much more.

Requiem for a German past

a boyhood among the Nazis
1999
Jurgen Herbst offers an account of growing up in Nazi Germany from 1928 to 1948.

Between dignity and despair

Jewish life in Nazi Germany
1998
Draws from memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men in an attempt to understand how encroaching fascism and antisemitism affected Jews in their daily lives in pre-World War II Germany; and discusses how the Jewish people coped with the loss of friends, careers, businesses, and hope.

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